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Printing Wikipedia, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
April 3, 2014
On the Shelf
“Printers,” from the Trousset encyclopedia, Paris, 1886–1891.
Spotted in the
Times
:
our very own Sadie Stein (and her apartment)
paying tribute to Laurie Colwin
.
A German publisher
wants to print Wikipedia
—all 4,484,862 articles of it. The omnibus “would fill a bookcase that’s 32 feet long and 8 feet high. But not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.” I can’t imagine why.
Have we failed to utilize effective incentivizing techniques to promote greater linguistic clarity? In other words,
are we losing the war against jargon
?
The photographer Nancy Warner takes wistful pictures of
abandoned farmhouses on the Great Plains
.
In 1937, Richard Nixon
applied to be a special agent in the FBI
. He was not accepted. In a letter of recommendation, the dean of Duke Law School wrote that Nixon was “one of the finest young men, both in character and ability, that I have ever had the opportunity of having in classes.”
Want fast Internet?
Go to the darkest depths of Norway
, where there are more polar bears than people.
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